Camborne Hill was the venue for the carriage's test-run, on Christmas Eve - an event celebrated in a well-known Cornish folk song of the same name.

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Arirang is a popular form of Korean folk song, the outcome of many collective contributions.

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Dumky is the plural of Dumka, a kind of folk song that some Czech composers adapted for their classical works.

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The text and melody of the final movement are drawn from a Silesian folk song, again from the perspective of a grieving mother.

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To me, watching Wynton Marsalis construct a new piece from the chord progressions of a South African folk song is a little like magic.

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Even within the confines of musically narrow genres, Cooder allows himself room to stretch, manipulating the song structures of 1930s American music: minstrel folk, country ballads, blues and even the lounge jazz of Chet Baker.

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The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.

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All in all, the chair is reminiscent of an apparently prescient song by little-known Canadian folk rockers Moxy Fruvous.

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Mr. MELOY: Eli sells all sorts of random things, sort of walks through the cities, much like Molly Malone from that Irish folk song.

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